Sentences with phrase «confederate soldiers»

The cemetary there is a labor of love by the owners of plantation during the civil war for thr confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Franklin.

America's obsession with the Civil War has never dulled; year after year living history reenactors take to the historic battlefields to commemorate famous battles between Yankee and Confederate soldiers.

In the midst of the Great Depression, on January 16, 1936, Virginia's political and business leaders bravely demonstrated their faith in the future and their belief in the value of art by opening the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on the former site of the Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers» Home.

Here, working in cut steel, Walker includes stereotypical Civil War imagery of the South — a stately plantation mansion, small huts, enslaved African Americans, Confederate soldiers, and Southern belles.

You start as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War, but quickly desert to go back to your family home and do some saving.

It's hard to make a game starring Confederate Soldiers who desert and run away to the wild west.

Small groups of disaffected Confederate soldiers from the American Civil War settled in the town now known as Punta Gorda.

Some tours offer the opportunity to crawl into caves where Confederate soldiers and moonshiners used to hide.

Did You Know: Tullahoma was the site of an important Civil War campaign in which Union troops forced Confederate soldiers out of the Middle Tennessee region.

It took place by the Rio Grande River, and although Union and Confederate soldiers knew of the truce in Virginia, Southern soldiers actually won this last battle and took over 100 prisoners of war.

Almost every subplot and contextual element in Siegel's film — a spot of incest, a lone slave on the premises, an alarming visit by Confederate soldiers — has been neatly and not always satisfyingly pared away, leaving only the story's battle - of - the - sexes core.

A loner with a talent for guns in the Old West has a scheme to get a coffin full of gold by pitting warring factions of Confederate soldiers against Mexican rebels.

The Confederate soldiers not fighting on the front lines are instead in town abusing their power, shaving off a large percentage of the farmers» share of crop money.

The Confederate soldiers manage to regroup and fire at their enemy just below them.

The film starts with Jude Law lounging with other Confederate soldiers inside a series of trenches, laughing at the lazy Union soldiers across the field.

Union and Confederate soldiers impale one another with bayonets and beat each other with their bare fists, as Spielberg's camera scans the multitude, revealing more than a few African - American faces amongst the men in blue uniforms.

Synopsis: After the Civil War ends, Confederate soldiers Frank (Gabriel Macht) and Jesse James (Colin Farrell) return home with the three Younger brothers to... [MORE]

After slaying undead Confederate soldiers in «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,» our 16th president tackles an even scarier task in Steven Spielberg's ambitious, often ponderous and Oscar - mongering «Lincoln» — pushing the 13th Amendment through the House of Representatives.

Instead of mainly focusing on the bloody fight between the Union and Confederate soldiers on the battlefields, or how the fighting affected the public, the film personalized the respected leader.

The scenes in Lincoln showing bodies of Union and Confederate soldiers viciously slaughtered and lying mingled together remind us of similar ones in Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.

Statues across the country depicting Confederate soldiers have been removed by localities in recent days.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis was critical of Mayor Bill de Blasio's intention to create a commission to consider removing statues and other public art honoring Confederate soldiers and other public figures whose actions are regarded as dishonorable.

I would imagine that supporting that flag are descendants of Union and Confederate soldiers, of slaves and immigrants, and of a host of different races and backgrounds.

But that inexorable advance by Union troops was momentarily slowed just outside Atlanta on June 27, 1864, by Confederate soldiers stationed atop an isolated 1,809 - foot - high promontory in Cobb County.

A favorite target of Confederate soldiers, Old Abe lost some feathers, but he was never wounded.

And then gave his first most quoted statement: «Every time I look at Atlanta, I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.»

It was first known as Decoration Day and was inspired by the flowers being placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers after the end of the Civil War.

I wondered if the monument to the Confederate soldiers still stood, proclaiming that never had so noble a cause and nation risen so cleanly.

And he paid tribute to a nurse named Elmina Spencer who walked into the midst of battle to care for wounded soldiers and then opened a hospital where she attended to both Union and Confederate soldiers.

On Monday evening, protesters in Durham, N.C., toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier.

@user4012 - Yes Lincoln did it for any confederate soldier that was willing to take an oath of alliegance after the civil war.

On the back is the prayer of an unknown Confederate soldier.

Anson Mount (Conviction, Crossroads) stars as the Confederate soldier, Cullen Bohannan.

After acing a mean - spirited Confederate soldier in «The Free State of Jones,» he now plays another 19th century baddie in this ultra-violent western starring Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce.

Law plays a wounded Confederate soldier who straggles back to North Carolina, where his wife (Kidman) and a spunky hobo (Zellweger) struggle to keep the farm going.

There are two bounty hunters, a former union soldier (Samuel L. Jackson) and sadist named The Hangman (Kurt Russell), Russell's prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a new sheriff (Walton Goggins), an executioner (Tim Roth), a stranger (Michael Madsen), an old confederate soldier (Bruce Dern), and a Mexican cabin worker named Bob (Demian Bichir)... broad character types are big part of the western genre and the Tarantino delights in playing with them.

There are various soul - inhabiting ghosts swirling around, notably that of a Confederate soldier whose brothers were taken from him by Union soldiers bearing a forerunner of the famed Winchester repeating action rifle.

Inman (Jude Law, Road to Perdition, A.I.), a Confederate soldier, decides to desert and travel home, while at Cold Mountain, Ada (Nicole Kidman, The Human Stain, The Hours) tries to survive living on a farm.

At one point, Metz refers to the time «I was fightin» for the Grays» — slang for his days as a Confederate soldier.

Matthew McConaughey looks like a Confederate soldier.

Along the way, he picks up another bounty hunter, Marquis (Samuel L. Jackson), a former Civil War major in a black regiment; and the town's newly elected sheriff, a former Confederate soldier, played by an interesting actor named Walton Goggins (TV's «Justified»), who has an edge of bug - eyed menace.

The two who have shared history agree to partner to protect their bounties and continue on their way until they encounter yet another person on the road, Chris Mannix (Walter Goggins), a Confederate soldier who claims to be the new sheriff at Red Rock.

The new film from director Gary Ross (The Hunger Games) stars Oscar - winner Matthew McConaughey as a Confederate soldier who becomes disillusioned with the South's cause and declares a safe haven in Jones County, Miss..

Back in time and on Earth in 1868, John Carter (Taylor Kitsch, devoid of personality), a former Confederate soldier, was searching for gold in Arizona when he found an otherworldly cave.

Nicole Kidman 4 Film Collection (Cold Mountain, Dogville, The Others, Rabbit Hole) DVD Reviews Cold Mountain (2003) Directed by: Anthony Minghella Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Renée Zellweger Running Time: 2 hrs 34 mins Rating: R Due Out: April 3, 2012 PLOT: As the Civil War nears its end, a Confederate soldier (Law) makes the long journey home to reunite -LSB-...]

The Beguiled is a new take on the 1971 Clint Eastwood drama about a Confederate soldier imprisoned in a girls» school, told this time from the girls» point of view.

Born Daniel Whitney, Larry is a covert, Confederate soldier from the culture wars

Film Review by Kam Williams Civil War Saga Chronicles Exploits of Confederate Soldier - Turned - Slave Revolt Leader While the slave raids led by Nat Turner and John Brown have been well documented in the annals of American history, the relatively - successful exploits of another notorious abolitionist insurrectionist have somehow slipped through the cracks.

Monastero always lets schools choose whether they'd like him to play a Union trooper or a Confederate soldier.

According to a flier handed out by anti-mascot activists at a Thursday, November 2 meeting of the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees, the predominantly white students in the class of 1967 who chose to be represented by Johnny Rebel — a term for a Confederate soldier, and the stage name of a prominent white supremacist musician — did so to send «a clear message that people of color were not welcome at Savanna High School or in Anaheim.»